I think too many people underestimate the power of the human touch. I, like many, use google as my primary search engine. I just never found the quality of results from other engines, like Yahoo, to be the same as I get from Google.  This is GREAT if I know what I am looking for. Now I am not talking about AI to do things like give me search terms I may not have thought of, but what if I am looking up concepts like “inspiration”, “examples of good design”, “good work music”. Google just can’t find me that… it requires the human touch. Unfortunately “human” based directories have never quite lived up to my expectation either. They are either controlled by an elite few, never updated or full of paid links making the results completely unreliable.

Enter social bookmarking.

Delicious and Magnolia have an unbelievable resource of information of human classified quality resources. It is a giant listing of sites that people have thought were worth saving, categoriezed by tag and updated with the freshest sites. Social Bookmarking is the future of search directories.

So to show my love for delicious and magnolia, Dan and I created Player.icio.us. Player.icio.us is basically a little app that plays bookmarks like a movie. Type in a tag word and it will “play” for you the most popular sites for that tag. We even extended it to include user names so if you want to see what your friends or fav internet celeb is up to, type in their delicious or magnolia user name and check out their latest saves.

I apologize in advance for my cold that makes me sound crazy nasily… that and I am from Jersey so, you get what you get.

As always feedback is appreciated… it is a little rough at the moment and we are working some of the bugs out, but would love to hear what you think.